Facebook has reportedly been paying teenagers to install a “Facebook Research” VPN, which allows the social network company to “suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity,” while skirting Apple’s developer rules.
Pop star Ariana Grande deleted a post of her new Japanese tattoo from Instagram this week after fans pointed out that it translates to”small charcoal grill,” not “7 Rings” as she intended.
Mozilla Firefox announced the introduction of anti-tracking privacy settings in its browser, Tuesday.
A pregnant driver for the ride-sharing service Lyft was stabbed to death in Arizona by one of her passengers, according to a report.
A bug in Apple’s FaceTime allowed users to spy on others before their call had been answered, transmitting both audio and video from the call recipient’s device without their knowledge, according to a report.
Former BuzzFeed manager Jason Sweeten created a BuzzFeed quiz, Monday, criticizing the company’s mass layoffs. The quiz, titled “Do You Still Have A Job At BuzzFeed?” calls for employees to unionize while mocking the company’s culture and practices.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) press secretary has admitted to being friends with disgraced Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland, who is currently serving a six-year sentence in federal prison for fraud.
Facebook’s decision to merge Facebook with Instagram and WhatsApp has “implications for privacy,” according to a report.
Recently laid-off BuzzFeed employees, along with those still at the company, are demanding that the company pay them earned Paid Time Off (PTO), after it was alleged that only employees in California were being paid out for the benefits they had earned when laid off.
Following the announcement of mass layoffs at HuffPost and BuzzFeed amongst others this week, journalists blamed the Google and Facebook duopoly on digital advertising.
Microsoft President Brad Smith called on the Trump administration to support a set of so-called digital democracy principles “outlining acceptable behavior in cyberspace that’s been signed by more than 60 governments and more than 100 other organizations,” despite the company complying with strict Chinese censorship rules, and recently partnering with NewsGuard to create a news blacklist for its Edge mobile browser.
Dating platform OkCupid is offering two free drinks to every government employee with a valid ID at a “date night” event in Washington, D.C., Friday.
Google has reportedly been urging the U.S. government to “limit protection” for its protesting employees, allegedly attempting to quell employee organizing efforts via company email, following several large protests over alleged company protection of sexual harassers.
NewsGuard, an anti-“fake news” service built into Microsoft’s Edge mobile browser, has an advisory board with a history of spreading inaccurate information, conspiracy theories, and engaging in unethical journalism.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview to have served a goat which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg killed with a “laser gun” and a knife.
In a March 2018 interview with NewsGuard Executive Editor James Warren, establishment conservative Bill Kristol correctly noted that NewsGuard, an app and browser plug-in which allows users to avoid what it considers “fake news” websites, would face skepticism since “establishment people” like “establishment websites.” NewsGuard has added Breitbart News, the Drudge Report, and the Daily Mail to its “fake news” blacklist.
Vice reporter Justin Caffier set up, and then deleted, a GoFundMe fundraiser for journalist Erik Abriss, who was fired from INE Entertainment this week after he declared that he wanted the pro-Trump Covington Catholic students “to die,” along with their parents.
Google is donating over $3 million to Wikipedia parent company Wikimedia as part of a new partnership between the two companies, despite several controversies in 2018 surrounding misinformation in Google search results taken from Wikipedia.
Social media users compared the hate hoax against the Covington Catholic high school kids to a passage about “facecrime” from George Orwell’s landmark novel 1984 this week.
Free speech social network Gab has secured a new payment processor following its blacklisting from major payment services, including PayPal and Stripe, which left accepting mailed payments the site’s only recourse.
A Japanese hotel reportedly fired half of its nearly 250 robot staff following various complaints from guests. Henn-na Hotel, which employs various robots from check-in staff to in-room help, reportedly decided to lay off half of its robot employees after
Starbucks has moved into delivery, partnering with Uber Eats to deliver coffee across the United States and worldwide.
Twitter has suspended a “suspicious” and “misleading” account controlled by a Brazilian blogger which made the Covington Catholic High School hate hoax video go viral.
French regulators have reportedly fined Google nearly $57 million for violating GDPR rules on data privacy.
A Florida man allegedly used popular video game Fortnite to lure at least 20 teenagers to his house for “sexual activities.”
Gillette’s recent commercial against “toxic masculinity” has become the 28th most disliked YouTube video of all time, or the 12th most disliked video if you exclude music videos.
Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth claimed he would ask employees to take down 5-star Amazon reviews they had left for the company’s own smart camera product, Portal.
Facebook is reportedly developing a hub of memes and funny videos for young users, titled “LOL,” in an effort to engage the youth who have fled the social network for rival platforms.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey granted an interview to HuffPost, Thursday, where he discussed collaborating with other Big Tech companies on censorship “methods,” expressed respect for conservative activist Laura Loomer’s fight against his own company, and denied sending his beard hair to rapper Azealia Banks.
Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon discussed Breitbart News’ latest Google leak on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, Wednesday, highlighting Google’s threat towards democracy.
A dead newborn baby was reportedly found in an Amazon warehouse trash can on Wednesday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an article for Time Magazine, Wednesday, in support of digital privacy and control through regulation.
Bestselling author Dr. Jordan Peterson and Rubin Report host Dave Rubin have left Patreon in protest of the funding platform’s censorship, losing up to $100,000 dollars of monthly income between the two of them in the process.
Gillette’s recent commercial against “toxic masculinity” has reached 700,000 dislikes on YouTube and is quickly approaching the top 50 most disliked YouTube videos of all time after just several days on the platform.
Streaming device manufacturer and platform Roku caved in to demands from left-wing activists to blacklist Infowars, Tuesday.
Apple replaced ten times as many iPhone batteries as they expected after reducing the price of battery replacement for certain models in 2018, following allegations the company was artificially slowing down iPhones, referred to as the “Batterygate” scandal. The battery replacements could have cost Apple up to $11 billion in lost revenue as customers replaced batteries instead of upgrading phones.
National Religious Broadcasters Urges Congressional Review of Big Tech Legal Protections
Shaving product manufacturer Gillette received an overwhelmingly negative response to its latest advertisement campaign, which takes a stand against “toxic masculinity.”
Jay-Z’s music streaming service Tidal is reportedly under investigation in Norway over allegations that the company faked listener numbers. The extent of the faked numbers could allegedly involve hundreds of millions of false plays of albums from major artists like Beyonce.
Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, allowed employees unrestricted access to the cameras inside people’s homes, according to a report from the Intercept.
